smartmontools: smartmontools (hard drive monitoring utilities) smartmontools: smartmontools: SMARTMONTOOLS contains utilities that control and monitor storage smartmontools: devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology smartmontools: (S.M.A.R.T.) system build into ATA and SCSI Hard Drives. This is used smartmontools: to check the reliability of the hard drive and to predict drive smartmontools: failures. SMARTMONTOOLS Version 5.x is designed to comply to the smartmontools: ATA/ATAPI-5 specification (Revision 1). Future releases of smartmontools: SMARTMONTOOLS (Versions 6.x and 7.x) will comply with the ATA/ATAPI-6 smartmontools: and ATA/ATAPI-7 specifications. smartmontools: